SATA 300 drive support

Hello,
Does anyone know if a new SATA 300 drive is backwards compatible and will work on the SATA 150 controller in the G5? I know I won't get the higher speed but it seems like hard drive manufactureres are are slowly discontinuing the SATA 150 drives.
Also does anyone like one manufacturer over another for the SATA drives?
Thanks
Harry

I find as good or better prices on www.zipzoomfly.com and larger selection.
Check the front page of www.xlr8yourmac.com and Mike's "Drive Upgrade DB" that you can search.
Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 (not .9) ship with 3.0Gbps disabled so they run in 1.5Gbps (150MB/sec) mode and with SSC disabled.
Hitachi drives are solid, no problems, reliable.
Another drive to consider is the 10K Raptor. The 150GB model does NOT work if you have PCI-X, you need to have PCI Express/Dual Core G5, not the older style. The earlier 74GB model works fine on both.
So if you were wanting 750GB, Seagate has one
And Hitachi has a nice 500GB model. (Seagate does too but you have to get latest firmware, or, that it is the ".10" family.

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decided to post a question on this hp forum instead of the hundreds of other tech forums out there in the hopes of recieving a valid knowledgeble response. (Also since the question relates to Hp products lets give it a try on here>>)
So here is the question I'm trying to get answer for. Can a SATA hard drive from DV 2000 series notebook be used in a DV 9000 notebook series? I have done some forum reading and apparently there is compatibility issues depending on chipset (Intel or Amd or ATI?)
My Dv2000 series had a fujitsu 250gb hard drive which ran Vista 64bit on an AMD/nvdia motherboard,
I want to use this in my DV 9233cl notebook which has an Intel/nvidia chipset motherboard.
When I insert the fujitsu 250gb into the dv9233cl the notebook powers on, does a read of hard drive for 10 mins or so (hdd LED lights up, goes dim while reading) then says : No OS found.
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Hello,
Thank you for responding and opening up the discussion with more information.
I refered to it as new in my post in reference to obtaining it recently after my older dv2913cl.
The dv9233cl is in fact old, however I installed a brand new intel/nvidia motherboard into it.
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Also the systm boots and runs fine into mini Xp for diagnostics. So overall I know the dv9233cl is functioning.
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Link for intel SATA drivers for XP and Vista
http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/SoftwareDescription.jsp?lang=en&cc=US&swItem=ob-542...
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If I have a laptop with a sata 150 capability, can I use a sata 300 drive in it?
I assume that it would run at sata 150 performance, but is it compatible?
Would I be able to benefit from the larger cache size? Would it tend to run cooler? Any other possible benefits or drawbacks?
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My hard drive failed yesterday and I bought a new sata drive. Needless to say the drive is a Sata 300 drive that has a jumper to put the drive to a sata 150. My questions are.
1. does the iMac's motherboard automaticly switch the drive from 150 to 300 without a jumper ever being needed?
2. Which sata interface does the iMac use?
Needless to say by the time some one answers this question I will have it figured out. I noticed this topic hasn't been discussed and could be helpful. I will update when I get the process complete and figured out.

After installing leapord everything has gone smooth. I have removed the jumper on the back of the drive that tells the system wether or not it is a Sata 150 or 300 drive.
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Name : ST3500320AS Media
Type : Disk
Partition Map Scheme : GUID Partition Table
Disk Identifier : disk0
Media Name : ST3500320AS Media
Media Type : Generic
Connection Bus : Serial ATA 2
Device Tree : /PCI0@0/SATA@1F,2/PRT2@2/PMP@0/@0:0
Writable : Yes
Ejectable : No
Mac OS 9 Drivers Installed : No
Location : Internal
Total Capacity : 465.8 GB (500,107,862,016 Bytes)
S.M.A.R.T. Status : Verified
Disk Number : 0
Partition Number : 0
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Does my mac support SATA 300?

Hello,
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JorgePimentel wrote:
Thanks for the reply guys. What about SSD drives? Is my MBP compatible with SSD drives? Would you advise any? I know nothing about SSD drives.
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I've checked the sata in the system profile and tried disk utility but it is simply not there. Could this be a wiring problem or a bad drive? How do I check this?

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MacBook Pro CAN see internal SATA hard drives.
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Since the MacBook Pro seems to work completely fine other than this one issue, and will boot properly from both external devices and the CD (also a SATA device), I'm thinking and hoping that it's just the hard drive ribbon cable. From my searches online, I've heard that this batch of MacBook Pros is known to have issues with the hard drive ribbon cable, but it seems in most cases this manifests itself by the Mac not being able to see a drive at all.
I've done quite a bit of troubleshooting to get to this point, but right now I'm just looking for any feedback at all. Specifically I'd love to know a way I can easily test to see whether it's the logic board or the cable.

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